Alison Strauss
Arts Development Officer (Film and Media), Hippodrome Cinema / Curator HippFest
Key Expertise: Bid-writing/fundraising, Programming, Audience development, Audience engagement and education.
Alison Strauss has an MA in Film Archiving and British Film and worked at the British Film Institute National Archive for seven years in the Access department identifying and supplying material for UK cinemas, researchers, academics, donors and rights holders.
She studied Arts Management at Birkbeck College, University of London and went on to work in Arts Development for four successive local authorities in England and Scotland, specialising in Creative Industries, Voluntary Arts and Film and Media. Alison was one of 8 participants from across the UK selected to take part in the Independent Cinema Office’s inaugural Women’s Leadership Programme (Dec 15 – May 16).
She is currently the Arts Development Officer (Film and Media) at Falkirk Community Trust and year-round programmer of the Hippodrome Bo’ness. In this role she established the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema (Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music) of which she is the Director (2011 to present). She was previously a Board member for Art in Healthcare and now sits on the Board of Regional Screen Scotland serving as working group member on Festivals Development.
Alison Strauss has an MA in Film Archiving and British Film and worked at the British Film Institute National Archive for seven years in the Access department identifying and supplying material for UK cinemas, researchers, academics, donors and rights holders.
She studied Arts Management at Birkbeck College, University of London and went on to work in Arts Development for four successive local authorities in England and Scotland, specialising in Creative Industries, Voluntary Arts and Film and Media. Alison was one of 8 participants from across the UK selected to take part in the Independent Cinema Office’s inaugural Women’s Leadership Programme (Dec 15 – May 16).
She is currently the Arts Development Officer (Film and Media) at Falkirk Community Trust and year-round programmer of the Hippodrome Bo’ness. In this role she established the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema (Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music) of which she is the Director (2011 to present). She was previously a Board member for Art in Healthcare and now sits on the Board of Regional Screen Scotland serving as working group member on Festivals Development.